Omnivore
The ecological question
Melissa Lane (Princeton) and Nancy Rosenblum (Harvard): The Political Theory of Climate Change: State of the Field. Alyssa Battistoni reviews Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future by Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright. Richard Janda (McGill) and Richard Lehun (Frankfurt): The Conflict of Human and Non-Human Laws. Can rivers be people too? Inside the radical movement to gain rights for ecosystems — and save the environment. John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark on the expropriation
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Paper Trail
Ta-Nehisi Coates is leaving The Atlantic, where he has been on staff since 2008. Darin Webb, a longtime accountant at the literary agency Donadio & Olson, has been charged with stealing more than $3.4 million from the company and its clients. According to the Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Webb has …Syllabi
The Roots of the Alt-right
Mike WendlingDuring the last presidential election cycle, you may have read reports describing the alt-right—a loosely organized group of anti-PC, anti-feminist, race-obsessed online warriors—as a strange, newly …- Marriage Reimagined Laura Smith
- "We Are Revolution": Introducing Asia's Proletarian Lit Matt Turner
Daily Review
Homeplace
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest recorded use of the word “honky-tonk” dates to 1899, in the Fort Worth Daily Gazette. “A petition to the council is being circulated for signatures, asking that the Honky Tonk theater on Main Street be reopened,” … 
- The Overstory
by Richard Powers
Interviews
Chelsea Hodson
In the autobiographical essays that make up her debut collection, Tonight I’m Someone Else, Chelsea Hodson examines the chaotic and bewildering experience of being an American woman and artist. At first glance, some essays resemble a well-curated Twitter feed— like the single-line, stream-of-consciousness observations found in “The End of Longing”—but Hodson offers much more than aphoristic quips: She delves deeply into themes such as longing, desire, performance, and voyeurism.
…- IN THE LATE 1980S, at the outset of her celebrated career, Zoe Leonard had a crisis …
- FAYE HAS JUST BOARDED an airplane when Kudos, the third novel in a trilogy about her …
- ANACHRONISM WAS THE RULE at the political conventions of the summer of 1968. It was …
- STANLEY KUBRICK’S 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. It was a big …
- HALF A CENTURY AGO, when Yukio Mishima’s Sun and Steel was published, reasonable people …
- A “Sy Hersh piece,” as readers of the New York Times and the New Yorker have come to …
- IN JANUARY, I received a package containing one twenty-dollar bill and one postcard …
Reviews
Excerpt
The Man Without a Nation
Amitava Kumar
The one activity that was perhaps the most stable part of my identity that first semester was the seminar I was taking with Ehsaan Ali. His class Colonial Encounters was held on Friday afternoons. The seminar participants required his special permission to join.
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